Inside NASA’s Astronaut Training for a Historic Moon Mission

In just days, a group of astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — is slated to fly roughly 5,000 miles past the far side of the moon, the farthest humans have ever traveled in space.

Their 10-day journey, the second flight of NASA’s Artemis program to create a lunar outpost as a stepping stone to Mars, will bring the crew around the moon without touching down, a precursor to the agency’s planned landing mission in 2028.

Along the way, they will also be making history as the first woman, person of color and Canadian to orbit the ...